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During the 2017-2018 school year, approximately 613 students have participated in 30 Career Highlight events put on by Providence School Outreach. Providence Caregivers have helped to facilitate these events, imparting their knowledge, expertise, and personal life experience to students.

More than 161,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, and nearly 27,000 will die of the disease. While prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among American men, it also is very manageable, and often curable.
Providence Cancer Institute experts now have state-of-the-art technology that brings the promise of cure to more men with prostate cancer.

Phase 1 studies are the springboard for advancing new cancer treatments. The Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, a division of Providence Cancer Institute in the Robert W. Franz Cancer Center, is often able to offer patients first-in-human clinical trials of immunotherapies and other novel cancer therapies through our own investigator-sponsored trials, and through collaborations with partners across the country.

Researchers at the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, or EACRI, and Agonox, Inc. have published groundbreaking work concerning tumor-killing T cells which could greatly improve the immune response in cancer patients – leading to successful treatment of tumors.

Providence Health & Services in Oregon is a not-for-profit Catholic network of hospitals, care centers, health plans, physicians, clinics, home health care and affiliated services guided by a Mission of caring that the Sisters of Providence began in the West nearly 160 years ago.